ROC robot operating system

Http://www.ros.org/wiki/

Ros is a new super-portable robot programming system. Active Oxygen allows you to easily build distributed robot control systems on different languages and platforms.

Ros is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. it provides the services you wowould perform CT from an operating system, including hardware failed action, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.

ROS:

• Ros installation instructions

  • Provides instructions on how to install ROS on your machine.

  Getting started with Ros

  • Provides tutorials and technical overview of ROS. Also check out the roscheatsheet.pdf

  Getting help

  • Provides a short list of links for how to ask questions and get help with Ros.

  Getting Involved

  • How to contriunity to the ROS community.

Software built on ROS:

• Core libraries by functionality

  • Lists available APIs within ros by language and topic.

  Code repositories

  • There's a broad community contributing open-source software for Ros. This lists release of the known code repositories that build on top of Ros.

  Search software

  • Search for libraries internal ss the entire Ros community.

Robots/hardware using ROS:

• Robots

  • List of robots that are using or can be used with Ros software.

  Robots using Ros blog Series

  • Articles highlighting various robots using Ros and describing how Ros is used.

  Driver tutorials

  • Lists current tutorials for Supported Hardware.

Publications using ROS:

• Papers

  • Published papers with open source implementations available.